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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 15, 1932
Page
6
The article notes that baby skin requires special care and highlights Baby's Own Soap with its soft soothing oils. It emphasizes the soap's clinging fragrance likened to roses of France, suggesting it inspires gentle cleansing.
Summaries of global events include CN R pool elevators aiding 2 000 000 bushels of wheat for Churchill shipment. Veterans of the 1885 Rebellion form Northwest Field Force of 1885 Veterans Association on the coast. Lord Byng places wreath at Ottawa Memorial Chamber. Al Cheesman invited by Sir Hubert Wilkins for South Pole expedition. A US mail plane crashes at Burbank killing all aboard. Baden-Powell marks 32nd anniversary of Mafeking relief in London. Scottish Trade Mission in Canada stresses brief personal contact with the Duke of Montrose speaking at Montreal.
Carter Glass argues for US branch banking reforms citing Canada’s lack of bank failures during the current crisis while 5,000 US banks failed in two years costing depositors 5.5 billion dollars. He notes treasury experts have pushed Congress to permit branching, opposed by rural and small communities fearing loss of local banking.
A teacher asks if a woman gathering five eggs daily would collect 35 in a week. William then asks if hens lay eggs on Sunday, challenging the assumption and prompting consideration of weekly timing.
Ontario agriculture officials announce a campaign to broaden markets with sales reps in Winnipeg Montreal and Maritime Provinces. Minister T L Kennedy says the effort will use the agricultural council to monitor conditions and boost sales while shifting focus from Britain to other Canadian provinces.
A factory claims a new anti aircraft gun can down attackers seven and one half miles up. Tests off La Seyne France used a flying bomber with a 1000 foot tethered target as live shells opened on the air. European aviation military and naval officials watch the experiments.
The pattern touts a blue and white nautical themed blouse in washing silk with a fitted waist and splashy artist’s tie. It lists sizes 14 to 20 and 36 to 88 inches bust with yardage for fabric and ribbon, priced 25 cents in stamps or coin.
Scotland’s Exhibition Ship Letitia sent the largest varied collection of Scottish products to Canada aboard the Anchor-Donaldson liner Letitia. About eighty leading Scots accompanied the exhibit headed by Duke of Montrose to foster trade, with Glasgow Corporation fitting the ship.
The piece chronicles Glasgow’s post disaster recovery, its Clyde depth improvements, and the rise of industries tied to shipping. It highlights the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and its London and Ostend presence, the 1783 turning point, the Comet's 1812 launch, and the later development boards guiding industry across a population over one million.
Thirty two of fifty boys brought from Britain in 1930 to farms and homes in British Columbia are thriving, with eight returning home seven missing and one in trouble with law officers. Dr W H Geddes oversaw the program on behalf of Vancouver officials. No new arrivals are planned for 1931. A fishery exhibition will be at Grimsby show, and Aegean Islands raise over 200000 goats and sheep.
A sailor long believed dead returns to relatives after a fire aboard his ship and abandonment on a lone Pacific island. He and one or two mates survived Crusoe like years awaiting rescue, while many similar isolated locations and wrecks exist near Vancouver Island and Cape Horn.
More than 275 editors and publishers of weekly papers across the Dominion will gather for the Weekly Newspapers Association convention at the Head of the Lakes on July 28 and 29. Delegates will be hosted with receptions and entertainments in Port Arthur. S. J. Dornan of the Despatch Alameda Sask is president and E. Roy Sales of the Mercury Renfrew Ont is secretary and manager.
The Brantford Expositor mocks discomforts of living near Nelson by calling dissenting nuisances “Douk abhorrences” and suggests exile to the Eskimos as an option. The piece argues mosquitoes or Arctic cold would worsen their plight.
Western Canada grows twenty five spring wheat varieties. In England this year thousands of starlings have swarmed coastal waters and inland areas.
Jack Holt proclaims that aging brings charm and youth remains appealing in Hollywood. The ad promotes Lux Toilet Soap as the complexion secret used by famous actresses worldwide, claiming it keeps skin fair and radiant from Broadway to Europe, with a sensational price note for the luxury soap.
Dr Sidney V Haas of New York City presented a diet based cure for celiac disease at the American Medical Association gathering in New Orleans. He stated no medicine is required and there has been no recurrence in patients. The diet relies on ripe banana sugar to regulate digestion and convert ordinary sugars into a usable form, addressing a form of sugar starvation that worsens the condition.
The Rev Frank Jarvis a Church of England missionary and one of 122 Munargo passengers reaches New York after four years on Cat Island West Indies. He plans to move to Thruso in northern Scotland where the climate is cold and misty. He laughs at the need for variety and notes limited success teaching Latin and Greek to local Negroes.
The Canadian National Railways report shows radio broadcasting costs totaling 441 082 dollars in 1929 with planned 114 000 dollars for 1932. 1930 gross revenue reached 420 603 dollars and 1931 326 248 dollars. Additional income came from facility rentals and tolls to the Canadian National Telegraph, plus intangible advertising benefits.
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